Describing The Web With Physics

Fungii writes: "There is a fascinating article over on physicsweb.com about 'The physics of the Web.' It gets a little technical, but it is a really interesting subject, and is well worth a read." And if you missed it a few months ago, the IBM study describing "the bow tie theory" (and a surprisingly disconnected Web) makes a good companion piece. One odd note is the reseachers' claim that the Web contains "nearly a billion documents," when one search engine alone claims to index more than a third beyond that, but I guess new and duplicate documents will always make such figures suspect.

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Re:1,000,000,000 urls

[demaria]

Well if I am not mistaken, the AP style guide says "Internet" when talking about the Internet, internet in the general or otherwise sense.

www.m-w.com defines "Internet" as a noun.